Adam Spiker is the Co-Founder and Executive Director of Southern California Coalition—the largest, most inclusive cannabis trade organization in world’s largest cannabis market, Southern California—and the vice president of Spiker Consulting Group, a third-generation government affairs consulting firm with more than 150 years of experience working for clients on state and federal issues. As the Southern California Coalition Executive Director, Spiker brings more than 15 years of experience working in government relations working across a variety of heavily regulated industries, and helping organizations, advocacy groups, and businesses coalition build, city plan, and the cannabis industry implement responsible policies in Los Angeles, other municipalities, throughout California, and at the federal level. Most recently, Adam played an instrumental role in the passing of Southern California Coalition-backed Proposition M—the world’s most comprehensive cannabis legalization regulatory framework to legalization, which provides the City of Los Angeles with a regulatory framework to fairly license, tax, regulate, and enforce the state-legal cannabis industry in the City of Los Angeles. The measure also creates a landmark social equity program aimed at ensuring those, who have been most impacted by cannabis prohibition, have equal opportunities to participate in the emerging sector. In addition to shepherding the passing of Proposition M, which overwhelming passed in Los Angeles with more than 80% of the vote, Spiker is currently helping Southern California Coalition members navigate the shifting and complex regulatory issues facing the cannabis sector and aggressively working to ensure fair cannabis policies are implemented, so small businesses are afforded a fair opportunity to apply for state and local licenses. Prior to joining Southern California Coalition and Spiker Consulting Group, Adam served in roles at: a principle at Ken Spiker and Associates, where he helped startup, small- and medium-sized, and Fortune 500 businesses navigate critical government relations issues and develop political advocacy strategies; as a founding partner at Access Capital helping businesses across the country secure funding and financial services; and as a financier at Cabrera Capital Markets, delivering asset management, investment banking, and full-service institutional brokerage services worldwide to a substantial and diversified client base, including public and private pensions, financial institutions, unions, governments, corporations, foundations and endowments, and sovereign wealth funds. Adam holds a bachelor of arts degree from the University of California, resides in Orange County with his wife Carrie and his young son Trevor, and has been featured as a cannabis industry policy expert in media outlets such as the Los Angeles Times, Forbes, Entrepreneur, McClatchy Washington Bureau, LA Weekly, LA Daily News, Leafly, Cannabis Business Times, along with other media outlets.

Rama is business partners with cultural icons 2 Chainz, The Game, Gary Vaynerchuk & Juicy J. He runs the award-winning creative agency Green Street to service the needs of those brands plus more. He's co-founder of the #1 cannabis B2B show in California, Hall of Flowers. Preferring to stay behind the scenes, he enables cannabis & non-cannabis brands to connect with cannabis consumers. Currently Rama is curating Green Street's first building project; 718 South Hill St., a 67,000 SqFt business & social center in Los Angeles, soon home to the world's leading Cannabis brands. Originally constructed over a century ago for The Los Angeles Furniture Factory, decades later renovated into a jewelry factory, then a featured location in the 1984 blockbuster Terminator, the building will now serve as a professional and social hub for entrepreneurs & creatives. Before Green Street he joined mentor Darren Romanelli at advertising agency StreetVirus & The Pancake Epidemic, working on the world's top brands including Disney, Beats By Dre, Deckers & Universal. Previous he was partnered with friend John LaCroix to create Medicine Agency & Gallery that serviced The Berrics, Maurice Kanbar, and produced art exhibitions with Alvaro Ilizarbe, Giovanni Reda, Greg Mike & Ron English. In 2006 Rama Co-founded United Trade Show together with Ryan Walker & Steve Aoki. United was an instant success with 5 consecutive sold out fashion trade show events. Walker & Aoki went on to separately have successful music careers. Late 2002, Rama co-founded Tarantulas Records, & managed musical acts The Explosion & Say Anything who went on to Virgin Records and J Records respectively. Under direction from The Explosion, he developed multiple artists under the Tarantulas label including; The Distillers, The Lox Six, The Bronx, Darker My Love & The Static Age. From 1994 to 2004; He ran Big Wheel Recreation with over 60 releases including early records from Jimmy Eat World, Jejune, Fastbreak, Braid, In My Eyes, No Knife, Ten Yard Fight, 454 Big Block, At The Drive-In, The (International) Noise Conspiracy and The Hives. He teamed up with friends in Boston to form Initech, one facility that housed: Bridge 9 Records, Hydrahead Records & Doghouse plus in-house publicist Jen Malone and booking agents Matt Pike & Matt Galle and ran day-to-day management of Doghouse & helped launch The All-American Rejects.

Amanda Ostrowitz is a regulatory attorney and entrepreneur who’s identified a need for a user- friendly, scalable platform to research regulations and laws in the cannabis industry. Amanda founded RegsTechnology and its current product, CannaRegs, as a tool to aid attorneys, business people, and governments with localized tracking of regulatory issues. Although RegsTechnology has its origins in covering the dynamics of cannabis regulation, Amanda has created an innovative framework that can be applied more broadly to other emerging, hyper- localized regulatory issues. Prior to conceiving, developing and founding RegsTechnology, Amanda worked as a bank examiner in the Denver branch of the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City. Amanda is a New England native who moved to Colorado in 2004 to attend Colorado College where she earned a B.A. in Economics and went on to receive her Juris Doctor from the University of Denver Sturm College of Law in 2013.

Stanley S. Jutkowitz, senior counsel in Seyfarth Shaw LLP’s Washington, D.C. office, concentrates his practice on domestic and international business transactions and tax planning, counseling on corporate and business matters, and real estate transactions. He is also the founding editor of the firm’s marijuana law blog, The Blunt Truth (blunttruthlaw.com) and heads the firm’s cannabis practice. Mr. Jutkowitz has taught a number of continuing legal education courses on various aspects of cannabis law. His cannabis law experience includes counseling businesses on the legal risks of selling into the cannabis industry both in the US and internationally, counseling investors on cannabis investments, tax planning and banking. His real estate experience includes the acquisition, development, sale and leasing of commercial, retail and residential property on behalf of domestic and foreign investors, and the representation of specialty users of real estate, such as companies with security clearance, technology companies and biotech companies. His transactional experience includes representation of emerging and other privately and publicly held companies in connection with mergers and acquisitions, debt and equity financing, venture capital transactions and public offerings of stock and tax planning and structuring entities for both inbound and outbound cross border mergers and acquisitions.